These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected ...

Over time, the two instruments developed differently according to their cultural contexts. Over centuries, the sheng became a ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Dating back to the Sangam era (over 2,000 years ago), the Yazh was the Tamil equivalent of a harp, prominently featured in ancient Tamil literature and poetry. Where it’s still played: Once a courtly ...

The temple of Hephaestus, as seen from the Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece. Credit: public domain from Wikimedia Commons. Greek civilization has existed for over 3,000 to 4,000 years and continues to ...

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New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Credit: Stavros CC BY 2.0 Imagine the warriors of Greece’s Sparta, once the most feared soldiers in the ancient world, reduced to performing for crowds of Roman tourists. This isn’t fiction—it’s the ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...